OSPF unicast/mcast hello

From: Luca Tosolini (l.tosolini@chello.nl)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2008 - 19:30:45 ARST


Hi Experts,
I captured the adjacency establishment on a p2m-broadcast network and
the following appears:
1- first hellos multicast
2- then the neighbor is discovered and hello switches to unicast
3- dd, lsr, lsu and lsa all unicast to neighbor address
4- once the db are synchronized, the hellos move back to multicast
While steps 1, 2, 3 make perfect sense to me, step 4 is total
nosense :-(

Any idea while it switches back to multicast? see capture below
Thanks,
bit.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      1 0.000000 192.168.0.1 224.0.0.5 OSPF
Hello Packet

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      2 30.036926 192.168.0.1 224.0.0.5 OSPF
Hello Packet

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      3 47.602189 Inverse
ARP Who is 0401? Tell 0000

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      5 60.184209 192.168.0.1 224.0.0.5 OSPF
Hello Packet

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      6 60.194623 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
Hello Packet

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      7 60.217233 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
DB Descr.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      8 60.217619 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
Hello Packet

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
      9 60.231960 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
DB Descr.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     10 60.232854 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
DB Descr.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     11 60.254059 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
DB Descr.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     12 60.266698 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
DB Descr.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     13 60.287051 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
DB Descr.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     14 60.287485 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
LS Request

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     15 60.302372 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
LS Request

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     16 60.302500 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
DB Descr.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     17 60.302695 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
LS Update

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     18 60.323451 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
LS Update

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     19 60.823180 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
LS Update

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     20 60.839132 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
LS Update

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     21 62.828848 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 OSPF
LS Acknowledge

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     22 62.852114 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1 OSPF
LS Acknowledge

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     23 75.659995 192.168.0.2 224.0.0.5 OSPF
Hello Packet

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     24 90.328088 192.168.0.1 224.0.0.5 OSPF
Hello Packet

No. Time Source Destination Protocol
Info
     25 105.837465 192.168.0.2 224.0.0.5 OSPF
Hello Packet

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